Zulaika Nakiwala, 38, a resident of Buwera East village in Buwenge town council in Jinja district, is being detained by police in the Kiira region for allegedly recruiting school-age children into lesbianism.
She was apprehended after a school administrator gave authorities a tip that two female students who were discovered kissing one other on Monday said they learned the vice from Nakiwala.
The suspect is accused of picking on elementary and secondary school students between the ages of 9 and 15 who congregate at her home in the late afternoon and evening after school.
The school administrator, whose identity has been suppressed, claims that Nakiwala lures unwary students to her house by selling snacks at several school canteens in Buwenge Town Council.
The head instructor claims that Nakiwala provides complimentary refreshments to eager students, who then get their friends to attend her nighttime classes.
A 13-year-old girl claims that Nakiwala forces them to undress and touch each other’s privates in front of her.
She claims that regardless of the situation, most girls enjoy Nakiwala’s listening ear and playful demeanour, and most of them prefer attending her sessions to talking to their parents about their everyday struggles.
During the third term break, when her parents were coming home late from work and she was afraid of living at home alone, a primary seven student said she started going to Nakiwala’s training sessions.
She claims that after her mother dismissed her accusations as unfounded and argued that those nightly sessions were crucial in protecting her from exposure to premarital sexual activities, her attempts to warn her about Nakiwala’s suspicious behaviours met with no response.
Nakiwala has denied the accusations made against her by ten of her victims, claiming that she was teaching the girls about the Busoga sub-regional practice of “labia elongation” and had never exposed them to lesbianism.
Nakiwala continues by saying that although she has been supervising these sessions in the living room for the past year, she has never seen lesbian activity.
According to James Mubi, a spokesman for the Kiira regional police, the suspect is currently being held at the Buwenge central police station on suspicion of participating in crimes involving unnatural sexual behaviour and sexual exploitation of kids.
According to Mubi, they have subsequently started a general inquiry file and are gathering information from the victims.
Lydi Mukhoda, the deputy headteacher in charge of discipline at PMM Girls SS in the Jinja district, was arrested prior to Nakiwala’s detention.
According to police spokesperson Fred Enanga, the head teacher has been charged with aggravated defilement, trafficking in persons, and grooming young girls for unnatural sex activities.
“The claims of recruitment, grooming, seducing girls with presents and money, bringing them to lodges like Kapanga lodge, exposing them to drugs, and filming them in sex movies for profit have all been the subject of investigations by a CID task team. To assist with our investigations, her partner, who has been identified as Maigga Martha, has been detained. To find witnesses from the school and other places in Jinja City and Buwenge, more attempts are being made “reads a succinct police statement.